• Research And Novel Writing

    If you’re expecting this post to be about doing research for a novel you may have in the works, that’s nice and I applaud your incentive, but that’s not what […]

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  • Fees–Great And Small

    Over the past several months (late 2017 and early 2018), I’ve sent out several short stories to literary magazines around the country.  Some submissions were simply in consideration for publication, […]

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  • Writing; Also Reading

    In the almost twenty years since I started writing fiction, I’ve noticed a change in the way I read that same genre.  I started my career as a scientist many, many years […]

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  • Beyond Creativity

    What is it we are actually doing by being creative?  That is, by making up a story such as a novel or a short story, or by producing a scientific […]

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  • Sending Stuff Out

    I just sent a short story to four journals.  Same short story; four literary journals.  Now comes the waiting part.  I may not hear from one or more of those journals for […]

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  • Import

    I’m going to stick my neck out here and try and define a characteristic of fiction that is, at least to me, new.  I’ve written a few short stories as […]

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